By PatD, a Trail Mix Contributor
1807 – The U.S. Congress passed an act to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States… from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.”
1836 – Texas declared its independence from Mexico
1904 – Dr. Seuss was born
1917 – The Russian Revolution began with Czar Nicholas II abdicating.
1917 – Citizens of Puerto Rico were granted U.S. citizenship with the enactment of the Jones Act.
1933 – The motion picture King Kong had its world premiere in New York.
1944 – Our Trail Mixer friend Jamie appeared in all her glory
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Jamie, an irish toast for you on your birthday… much better than french toast, not so fattening:
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
Enjoy the day in your birthday suit, Jamie!
Here is to many more!!
Holy sour note, huckster booted from CMA board.
I think this bodes well for the blue wave in November…the shortages, the trump slump, rampant inflation, more war, no peace, the bullying nra plus our tourism is down since sfb, pging potus took the oath. We are heading to the global dumper. Tower trash go home and the entire trump family, nepotic swamp and repugnant couples leave the DC area, immediately.
From January, 2018. How trump is killing jobs…hurting small business.
JAN 23 2018, 3:59 PM ET
Tourism to U.S. under Trump is down, costing $4.6B and 40,000 jobs
Happy Birthday, Jamie ?
A bouquet of daffodils is wished for you.
Happy Birthday!???
March 2. Perhaps the second most important day in history. Jamie makes her entrance, it was the Second day in the last fortnight of the life of Julius Caesar, the day CDs were first released in the US (1983), Nelson Mandela elected deputy President of the African National Congress (1990), And just last year the elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson were officially added to the periodic table in Russia. Who knew?
Happy birthday Jamie… may it be the best ever!
Happy Birthday, Jamie. Imagine, from infant to one of our Nation’s Premier Great Grandmothers in seventy-four years. Well Done!
Thank you all. For those who have never read the other important event of March 2, 1944 and why I have fated tie to motion pictures:
Historical Firsts was written six years ago and I’m still 36.
Jamie, as a devotee of song and dance, for you a muppets terpsichorean treat encore
https://youtu.be/vFiKBJvd7T4
Happy Birthday Jamie!
OOH Have to love the Muppets. Thank you.
We didn’t pick the liar.
If you got what Jamie’s got, everyday’s a birthday…….
This strange thing happened oncet in the 70’s here…….this local band had gotten quite big and even at one point wound up with a “regional” television show ( The Villagers ) on the south-east coast…..and then one day, after the TV show was over and the touring was done, they all drifted back home to charleston…..and every last one of them had turned Jehovah Witness.
They were our friends, and great musicians, so we all hung out with them and did bible studies and whatnot just cause we liked them and we always played some music at some point……..but they never let up and it began to wear a bit thin.
so this one day Dana, the lead singer of the Villagers, (he did a great James Brown) was over and commenced his stupid drooling bible study, and came to this point in whatever bible crap it was that day where he quoted the peasant, Paul, as saying that the admonition was to “avoid excess fornication”. Well, Butch Lewis, a drummer from the Bronx, had had enough and he says, “What’s ‘excess’ ?” Dana fumbles around with it a bit, they go back and forth over ‘excess’ for awhile, and Butch, getting madder and madder finally got it into a real Bronx high gear……..”Is there a QUOTA?” “How many is ‘excess’ ?” “C’mon, you got all the answers, What’s ‘EXCESS?” “HOW MANY??” till he had poor Dana on the ropes and he packed up all his bible study crap and slunk away.
We were a bit disappointed as we’d hoped to make a little Muzak but then Butch, whose parents owned a restaurant in the Bronx, made Moo-Goo Gai Pan, we had a feast and played some anyway.
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The Village Square with the Villagers
excerpts from ny times “Trump’s Chaos Theory for the Oval Office Is Taking Its Toll”
WASHINGTON — For 13 months in the Oval Office, and in an unorthodox business career before that, Donald J. Trump has thrived on chaos, using it as an organizing principle and even a management tool. Now the costs of that chaos are becoming starkly clear in the demoralized staff and policy disarray of a wayward White House.
The dysfunction was on vivid display on Thursday in the president’s introduction of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The previous day, Mr. Trump’s chief economic adviser, Gary D. Cohn, warned the chief of staff, John F. Kelly, that he might resign if the president went ahead with the plan, according to people briefed on the discussion. Mr. Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs president, had lobbied fiercely against the measures.
His threat to leave came during a tumultuous week in which Mr. Trump suffered the departure of his closest aide, Hope Hicks, and the effective demotion of his senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was stripped of his top-secret security clearance. Mr. Trump was forced to deny, through an aide, that he was about to fire his national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster.
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When White House aides arrived at work on Thursday, they had no clear idea of what Mr. Trump would say about trade. He had summoned steel and aluminum executives to a meeting, but when the White House said only that he would listen to their concerns, it seemed to signal that Mr. Cohn had held off the tariffs.
Yet at the end of a photo session, when a reporter asked Mr. Trump about the measures, he confirmed that the United States would announce next week that it is imposing long-term tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum. The White House has not even completed a legal review of the measures.
Mr. Trump’s off-the-cuff opening of a trade war rattled the stock market, enraged Republicans and left Mr. Cohn’s future in doubt. Mr. Cohn, who almost left last year after Mr. Trump’s response to a white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Va., indicated he was waiting to see whether Mr. Trump goes through with the tariffs, people familiar with his thinking said.
[….]
Privately, some aides have expressed frustration that Mr. Kushner and his wife, the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump, have remained at the White House, despite Mr. Trump at times saying they never should have come to the White House and should leave. Yet aides also noted that Mr. Trump has told the couple that they should keep serving in their roles, even as he has privately asked Mr. Kelly for his help in moving them out.
To some staff members, the chaos feels reminiscent of the earliest days of the Trump administration. Some argue Mr. Kelly should have carried out a larger staff shake-up when he came in. That has allowed several people to stagnate, particularly in policy roles, one adviser said.
Early days of the TV show.
oh, the humanity
would you believe….
twit’s “chaos theory” if it were a sitcom? oh it was once, wasn’t it?
would you believe….
a 3 time married, self-described philanderer and multi-bankrupt lying bully would ever get elected?
……
this from vanity fair different take than nytimes on twit wanting to get rid of the kushners.
“She Is Like a Security Blanket”: Hope Hicks, the Linus of the West Wing, Delivers a Devastating Blow to Trump
[….]
The departures again kicks open the door of speculation about just how long Kushner and Ivanka will last in the West Wing, particularly after chief of staff John Kelly stripped the first son-in-law of his high-level security clearance last week. As CNN reported on Wednesday, the White House calligrapher now has a higher-level clearance than Kushner, whose job includes brokering Middle East peace and liaising with world leaders on behalf of the administration. Though many see the proceedings as a sign that Kushner could soon be out, Hicks’s departure could signal that the president might want to keep him and Ivanka around longer. Without Hicks, Trump’s daughter and son-in-law are the only people remaining in the West Wing whose interests and intentions and, above all else, loyalty, he knows and trusts. It is, however, too soon to say where things will land. The wounds are still fresh. The tears have only just dried. And, at least for now, Hicks is still in the West Wing—she’s expected to stay on the job at least a few more weeks.
Jamie, especially for you as hard as it was to get her with her busy schedule, you know, planning the wedding, ruling britannia and all that rubbish
https://youtu.be/l-ciZnG-fMw
I’ve made the Birthday Honors List? WOW!!! Its “Dame Jamie” to you all from now on. lol
The Long Tall Texan made my brain burn until I finally remembered what song it had triggered whose title was located in a turned over file cabinet in some fading fast grey cell:
You’ve outlived the American Empire AND the American Dream, Jamie- rather impressive! Happy Birthday!
I’m sure all the conservatives and trolls who vomited all over the forum during the election will be back, soon, to wish you good tidings, also, ‘cause you know, they just wanted to be a part of the conversation and have their voices heard.
Add another notable event for March 2.
if she has a “detailed diary” isn’t it already in the hands of or on its way to bobby 3 sticks by now?
mercury news:
It seems that Hicks, who this week announced her resignation as Donald Trump’s White House communications director, kept a “detailed diary” of her time working for the president, and publishers are scrambling to buy the rights to her story, the Daily Mail reported.
In fact, one of New York City’s most powerful publishing houses is willing to pay her $10 million to write what an executive told the Daily Mail would need to be “a candid, truthful, sensitive tell-all about her life in Trump Land—the good, the bad and the ugly.”
here’s the headline of that story in daily mail and excerpts about other books by former twit workers to come forth:
EXCLUSIVE: Hope Hicks’ $10 million payday! The departing coms director is flooded with offers as publishers scramble for a book deal to spill the secrets of Trump’s inner sanctum and her affair with wife abuser Rob Porter
Publishers and producers wasted no time getting offers to the stunning communications director Hope Hicks as she exits the White House
A publishing executive said: ‘Next to Ivanka and Melania, Hope is the woman closest to the president, and knows all the secrets, all the foibles, all the quirks’
A White House insider says Hicks has been keeping what was described as a ‘detailed diary of her White House work, and her interactions with the president’
High-powered New York literary agent Eric Myers told DailyMail.com that Hicks could easily get a $10 million advance, ‘If she really did promise to throw the office doors wide open and tell all
But as a a longtime Trump confidante she may not be inclined to do that.
There would undoubtedly be matters of legality and national security to be weighed.
The 29-year-old White House communications director resigned on Wednesday
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Another Trump longtime advisor, Roger Stone, has published ‘The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution,’ in January.
And former White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced in December that he was penning a Trump White House tell-all, telling Fox News star Sean Hannity, ‘I’ve decided that this is incumbent on me to set the record straight.’
And more such books are expected.
One, which could have major implications for the president, is due to be published on April 17 – by one of Trump’s biggest enemies – the former FBI director whom he fired and who he has been highly critical of — James Comey. Comey got a a reported $2 million advance.
His book, ‘A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,’ is already at or near the top of three of Amazon’s book categories, and is predicted to be a # 1 bestseller when it hits bookstores.
But we must remember that there are Great sides on both people…..I mean both people on great sides……no, that’s not it…..I mean Both great on people’s sides……oh hell, it’s something like that……both people great on their sides….rats……..
…can’t there at least be a “haha” button, for crying out loud?
bbronc, how truly poetic if fresh indictments came out today channeling the ones 44 years ago.
would be ironic if ms hope’s diary becomes today’s version of the Watergate wh tapes…. wonder if there will be 18 missing pages equivalent to the 18 missing minutes on the Nixon tape.
bink, just what sort of “haha” do you have in mind? the ha ha! gotcha or the ha ha not so funny or the ha ha roflmao?
or the bully nelson on the simpsons?
…like the “i have to laugh to keep from crying” kind.
Offered up to the god of laughter.
Meanwhile, back in the jungle
thinking came to be like shoving great boxes around in a dusty attic.
—F. Scott Fitz, in “The Crack-Up”
How the family will be spending our Sunday afternoon:
Bernstein’s Mass presented by the USC School of Music
Presented by the USC School of Music, with Opera at USC and the USC Symphony Orchestra, LEONARD BERNSTEIN’S MASS
Three performances:
Friday, March 2 – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 3 – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 4 – 3:00 p.m.
Bernstein’s MASS is one of the most profound stage works ever created in English and an iconic piece of Americana. The epic stage production includes two orchestras, a rock band, a blues band, several choirs, singers, dancers and actors, and features as the Celebrant acclaimed Seattle tenor Kevin Vortmann, who recently performed the role to critical praise with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Sung in English, Latin and Hebrew.
Flatus, that sounds terrific. Sunday afternoon th’ missus & I will be attending the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Beethoven Concerto Cycle: No. 2, including Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, Beethoven’s Pianos Concerto No. 2 and Janacek’s Sinfonietta, Benjamin Grosvenor on the piano. We bought a book of tickets to 3 of the PSO’s productions this season. Also plan to see Midtown Men (a 4 seasons type of thing) and Verdi’s Requiem. In June we plan to spend a weekend with a performance on Saturday evening by Yo-Yo Ma with the PSO and on Sunday the Beethoven No. 4, with works by Mozart, Beethoven, Vali, Liszt and Wagner. Even as a guy who thinks music heaven has the Allman Bros., Clapton, Little Feat and the Beatles as the featured acts, I’m really looking forward to these concerts.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I just saw a campaign ad comparing a candidate to Trump point-by-point. Both businessmen, pro-walk, will work for “free.” This is not the opposition’s ad. This jag wants to be seen as Trump-like. Well, it’s just the Repug primary. If he wins, I hope it bites him in the backside in November…as impeachment hearings are underway for Donny.
Hopey-Changey.